Word: facing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strangled production of military jet engines, was also slowly throttling the flow of spare parts to the Berlin airlift. Last week Air Secretary W. Stuart Symington stepped in, invited the United Auto Workers' President Walter Reuther and Bendix President Malcolm P. Ferguson down to Washington to face each other (though both live in Detroit, they had never met). After an all-night session at the Pentagon, they came to terms. Bendix agreed to withdraw a $2,000,000 damage suit against the union, to rehire immediately 43 of 47 wildcat strikers who marched off the job in a squabble...
Only a Verdict. When the verdict was ready (the jury was out more than 26 hours), Judy entered the courtroom at Archie's side, her face expressionless and pale, the blue circles under her eyes showing the strain of her trial. Smiling nervously, she turned to him: "I don't know whether I can take it or not." Lawyer Archie was brash and noisy as ever. "Don't worry," he explained with fatherly concern. "It's only a verdict...
...Glories. Among the delegates at the congress were a few grey heads, schoolteachers and oldtime Fascist functionaries, but most were youngsters. In the red and gilt boxes sat such patrons as Marchesa Eloisa Marignoli, one of the party's chief backers, who languidly fanned her stiff, white-powdered face...
Most stars are too faint to suit astronomers, but the sun is too bright. Astronomers have been able to analyze the sun's light and photograph the spots that cruise in mysterious cycles across its face. But until recently, their observations have been limited mostly to the brilliant surface itself. Except during total eclipses, the details of the sun's atmosphere have been lost in its glare...
...hunting King Devil while his children grew more bitter, his wife Milly more resigned. When impoverished Nunn Ballew sold some of his livestock and paid $70 for two pedigreed hounds, to raise them from pups with no purpose in life except to catch King Devil, he was ashamed to face his family and his neighbors. To his astonishment they were overwhelmed with pride and admiration-"the onliest real fine things we've ever had"-and the dogs brought him a kind of backwoods fame and prosperity. Bootleggers treated him with respect, the AAA lent him fertilizer for his fields...